NCAA recognizes Grambling-JSU as no contest

SWAC has right to consider it a forfeit

10:37 PM,
Oct. 30, 2013

Written by

Sean Isabella
sisabella@thenewsstar.com

The NCAA is officially recognizing the cancelled game between Grambling State and Jackson State as a no contest, an NCAA spokesperson confirmed Wednesday morning.

According to the NCAA statistics' policies and guidelines, the Oct. 19 game will not count official in the win-loss record, although the SWAC will still deem it as a forfeit.

"When a team does not appear (e.g., due to weather conditions, accidents, breakdown of vehicles, illness or catastrophic circumstances, shortage of players), a forfeit is not recorded unless the rules of the sport provide that option," the policy reads. ...